Doug Jacobson

University ProfessorIowa State UniversityAmesIowaUSA

Doug Jacobson is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State. He is the director the ISU Information Assurance Center, which has been recognized by the National Security Agency as a charter Center of Academic Excellence for Information Assurance Education. He teaches network security and information warfare and has written a textbook on network security.

Doug Jacobson is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State. He is the director the ISU Information Assurance Center, which has been recognized by the National Security Agency as a charter Center of Academic Excellence for Information Assurance Education. He teaches network security and information warfare and has written a textbook on network security.

Education

Ph.D. Iowa State University, 1985

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

Dr. Jacobson's current funded research is targeted at developing robust countermeasures for network-based security exploits and large scale attack simulation environments and is the director of the Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment (ISEAGE) test bed project.